Looking for a hypervisor on Windows 8? Look no further. If your Windows 8 is Pro or Enterprise Hyper-V is available as a feature, and can be enabled easily as long as your system complies with there requirements: Windows 8 Pro or Windows 8 Enterprise (64-bit Operating System) Minimum of 4GB of RAM Hardware Assisted Virtualization […]

For some reason the 64-bit versions of Windows has a problem indexing PDF files. Windows Search uses IFilter to help it index files, and the PDF IFilter for 64-bit Windows is missing. (This probably applies to 64-bit Vista and 64-bit XP as well). To detect whether a computer has the IFilter installed or not open […]

Use this command to start headless VirtualBox named NameOfVirtualBox: [crayon-5bf2af2224bfa038175734/] Or using PowerShell: [crayon-5bf2af2224c0c056487571/] Note: If you close your command prompt the processes with your headless VirtualBox will get killed. Link to VirtualBox manual : http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch07.html#vboxheadless

Problem: This behaviour is seen when connecting a Vista computer with Atheros AR5007 Wireless LAN adapter installed to a new wireless accesspoint. (In this case a HP laptop computer with preinstalled Vista Home Premium connecting to Cisco Linksys EA6500). When inspecting network configuration you will find DHCP-address is assigned correctly – BUT no traffic is recieved […]

These Events are common when troubleshooting problems related to Health Service certificates i System Center Operations Manager 2007: 21021 – Could not load Certificate Check if certificate exists and the Health Service has permissions to read it. 20052 – Certificate not loaded (name does not match) Make sure Issued To match the actual […]

By default the option to view FTP site in Windows Explorer is hidden in Internet Explorer 9 (IE9). To enable it you have to go to Internet Options -> Advanced -> Enable FTP Folder View as shown below: Once this option is enabled you should see Open FTP Site in Windows Explorer in the View-menu. (Keep in mind […]

All of a sudden my Windows 7 ended up crashing with Blue Screen of Death when put to sleep, and I started investigating this behavior. After a couple of crashes a pattern started to emerge: Blue Screen of Death was only an issue when the laptop was running on batteries – and NOT when AC was […]

Creating an EventLog entry using PowerShell is shown below: [crayon-5bf2af222732e884073563/] Note: The Event Source needs to be created before writing entries to the Event Log. (See this post for further info: Create Event Source with PowerShell)